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Complimentary online access to Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes journal (WHATT):
To celebrate the publication of the newly launched Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes journal (WHATT), Emerald is very pleased to offer online access to the journal until 30 September 2009. The journal provides thematic reviews of the major challenges facing the tourism and hospitality industry today. Combining empirical data with secondary research and views of senior practitioners in the field, each issue provides practical solutions to challenges faced by the industry worldwide.

• Issue 1, entitled “What contribution will hospitality and tourism make in securing sustainable economic growth in India?” and guest edited by Vinnie Jauhari, addresses a range of challenges for hospitality and tourism in India and the industry’s role in supporting ongoing economic growth. The aim is to review and assess these challenges with input and assistance from industry practitioners. To facilitate this, a roundtable discussion was organized so that academics and industry experts could explore the key challenges and possible solutions.
• Issue 2, entitled “What are the possible solutions to the problem of excessive alcohol consumption?” and guest edited by John D. Pratten, draws together some expert views to explore the growing problem of excessive alcoholic consumption. John’s theme issue explores the underlying causes, the facts and figures and the challenges faced by practitioners and the police in dealing with the consequences of excessive drinking.
• Issue 3, entitled “What are the implications of climate change for the Caribbean travel and tourism industry?” and guest edited by Anthony Clayton and Carolyn Hayle, looks at the role of the travel and tourism industry in climate change and the implications of climate change for the industry in the Caribbean. The issue offers a stark warning about the reality and impact of climate change.

Please visit http://info.emeraldinsight.com/new_launch/index.htm and simply click on the WHATT link to access the issue. Please don’t hesitate to forward this web page to your peers and networks who may be interested in reading the journal content.

If you have a key industry challenge in mind that you would like to address via a WHATT theme issue, do please contact the managing editor, Richard Teare at ret38mail-whatt@yahoo.co.uk

For more information on the journal, editorial process and author guidelines and to register to table of contents, go to www.emeraldinsight.com/whatt.htm 

New Emerald titles

• Books and Series
  Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, volume 5, edited by Joseph S. Chen, 9781848556744, pp. 256
  Advances in Hospitality and Leisure" ("AHL"), a peer-reviewed series, seeks to deliver refreshing insights from a host of scientific investigations pertaining to hospitality, leisure, and tourism while rendering an academic forum to stimulate discussion on current literature, contemporary issues and emerging trends essential to theory advancement as well as professional practices from a global perspective. The main focus of this journal is to divulge the innovative methods of inquiry so as to inspire new research topics that are vital and have been in large neglected. AHL strives to address the needs of the populace willing to disseminate seminal ideas, concepts, and theories derived from scholarly inquiries. Potential readers may retrieve useful texts helping outline new research agendas, suggest viable topics for a dissertation work, and augment the knowledge of the new subjects of learning. For more information, click the above link.

• New journal titles in 2010
  International Journal of Event and Festival Management:
  The journal seeks to advance knowledge in the field of events and to enhance the uptake of such knowledge by practitioners in the field. Whilst publishing theoretical and practical articles, articles will include a section on how the findings can be adopted by practitioners in the field. The journal will cover events in its broadest sense ranging from small festivals to mega events such as the Olympics and include business events (MICE) as well as special events. As the field of events is not a discipline in its own right, articles will be sourced from all disciplines and it is therefore adopting a multi-disciplinary approach.
  The editor, Professor Lea Jago, actively encourages submissions to the journal: Author guidelines

• Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology:
  Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (JHTT) serves as a scholastic platform in the fields of Hospitality Information Technology and E-Business. It seeks to serve as a bridge between academia and industry through intellectual exchange of ideas, trends and paradigmatic changes underway in the two important and related domains that it addresses. 
  The editor, Dr Cihan Cobanoglu, actively encourages submissions to the journal: Author guidelines

Collection highlights

• Consumer behavior in tourism destinations special issue published in the International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research (volume 3, issue 2):
  This special issue publishes six contributions that are particularly relevant for understanding and managing the content of the interaction between the network nodes, in particular business-to-consumer relationships.
• Destination management: thinking laterally special issue published in Tourism Review (volume 63, issue 2):
  The reason for identifying the theme of “Destination management: thinking laterally” refers to the fact that, in today’s growing competitive environment, tourism destinations rather than individual attractions have become central to the management and marketing of national tourism assets. This highlights the importance of destination management and marketing. Its role is to direct tourism supply and ensure that operators treat the needs of visitors as complex streams of expectations which are directed at the destination’s heterogeneous offerings (see Gnoth, 1997). It is our hope therefore that papers accommodated in this special issue may help marketing and management in reflecting on their strategies of segmenting, targeting and positioning as well as in process and product development.

Current special issues’ calls for papers:

• How Can We Address Contemporary Hospitality Research Issues Through Qualitative Research?
• The History of the Commercial Hospitality Industry from Classical Antiquity to the 19th Century
• Health Tourism

Did you know?
In 2008, 1,370 articles were downloaded from Emerald’s Tourism and Hospitality journals per day

Community updates

The 2009 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in Hospitality Management
The esteemed International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM) is pleased to sponsor the 2009 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the subject area of Hospitality Management. The award is open to scholars who have completed and satisfied examination requirements for a doctoral award, or will have done so, between 01 October 2006 and 01 October 2009, and have not applied previously for one of these awards. Award-winning entries will receive a cash prize of €1,500 (or currency equivalent), a certificate, a winners' logo to attach to correspondence and the prospect of an offer of publication in IJCHM - either as a full paper or an executive summary - at the discretion of the Editor, Dr Fevzi Okumus.
For submission details, please visit: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/research/awards/2009_odra.htm#hm

Emerald Awards for Excellence
Emerald's publishing philosophy highlights six areas that inform the development of our journals: internationality; diversity; support for scholarly research; encouragement of applied research; commitment to high quality scholarship; and a desire to ensure reader, author and customer experience is the best it can be. These are also the areas we look to when we recognise and reward the efforts of authors and editors and celebrate the outstanding contributions many have made, not only to our journals, but to the body of knowledge itself.
To view the 2009 winners, please go to: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/authors/literati/awards.htm?year=2009

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Useful links

• Hospitality Information Technology Association (HITA):
  HITA is an organization dedicated to fostering collaboration among all those with an interest in hospitality information technology or hotel technology, including educators, industry, vendors and government. The Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology is published in partnership with HITA.
• International Academy of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research (IACTHR):
  IACTHR serves to nurture scientific advances building on interdisciplinary theory and empirical research across the fields of culture, tourism and hospitality research. The Academy is an open and continually growing body of scholars that includes academic and applied researchers seeking to deepen and broaden understanding, description, accurate forecasts and useful prescriptions of tourism and hospitality behavior within and across cultures.
  The International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research is published in association with the IACTHR.
• International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST):
  Tourism Review is the official publication of AIEST. AIEST is considered as being the international catalyst of scientific activities in tourism. The Association does not itself directly engage in tourism research and education, but it endeavours to foster them as much as possible within the limits of its possibilities and those of existing institutions.
• International Conference on Hospitality and Leisure Applied Research (I-CHLAR) is a non profit-making event organized by educational institutions in hospitality, leisure and tourism, sharing the same belief that academics and professionals should exchange and share their respective knowledge and put together complementary and relevant competences needed to face the future challenges of the hospitality, leisure and tourism industry.
  Dr. Thouraya Gherissi Labben, Head of Lausanne Hospitality Research, Ecole Hoteliere Lausanne's applied research department, in partnership with Dr. Joseph Chen, Professor of the Department of Recreation, and Tourism Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington (USA) and Series Editor of Advances in Hospitality and Leisure, have collaborated to found and develop this unique concept for a biennial conference which brings together hospitality academics and industry professionals.